Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-24
AT CALVARY BAPTIST.

Sermon by T. Harwood Pattison, Pres
fdent of Rochester UniversItY-ssThe
Gospel OF Jesus Christ the Hope of
the WOrld.ss
Calvary Baptist church was comfortably
filed yesterday morning to hear 7. HARDWOOD
president of Rochester university.
He took for his text Ephesians i, 13: 'In
whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your saliva
ton, in whom also after that ye believed ye
were also sealed with the holy spirit of prom
ise"
Even among the writings of Paul this is
At the time Paul wrote this he
was in Rome. Before him was stretched q
vast field filed with grandeur. By these
thoughts the spirit Of God was stirred with
in him. He could see the workings of the
Lord not only in this world, but in the next.
Since these words were written centuries
have passed, but the influence of them has
not changed; it remains the same. The sys-
tenn is more complicated now, but the heart
is the same as when Paul wrote these words
The world is different, and it is becoming
more and more so. But Christ is the same
as ever. Take your stand by Jesus Christ,
and hold your belief on him.
The gospel of the Lord is the hope of our
destinies. Our hope is not the basis of a
nebulous hope. Paul says: "He hath
chosen us before the foundations Of the
world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love. Having predes-
tinated us unto the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ to himself, according to the
good pleasure of his will. In whom we have
redemption through his blood, the forgive
ness of sins according to the riches of his
grace" The foundation of Jesus Christ is
coming nearer, and it is on more solid
basis
Before very long after Paul's death a
change came over the world in the shape of
dream. The Lord Jesus Christ had come
to be factor and an element in this world.
These >-s had despised him began to pray.
Christ was divine. The difference between
him and us is in degrees. You go through
the book of Christ and what revelation of
character you find. Everywhere rare gold
en- sunshine appears. 81
saw there is no hope in the world, except
as it be in the great center of this book:
There is hope in his calling. He speaks of
the life as the earnest of what is to come.
Paul says: "What is the earnest of our in
heritance until the redemption of the pur-
chased possession unto the praise of his
gloryf" The gospel is the earnest, or that
which, bye and bye. will be the hope OF our
God. The gospel of Jesus Christ has inter
woven itself with mental and moral life.
Darkeued souls are enlightened by it. l
speak to those who have children at home.
Bye and bye the child will awake. Why has
he got to wake up to the rough life and put
his feet on its ragged rocks? You
may give him riches, ETC., but say nothing
will hinder life being such disappointment.
The child as he gets along in years will
awaken to full realization of this disap-
pointment. It is only the gospel that in
spires. appeal to you whether that is so
or not. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the
gospel of hope.
The gospel of Christ is the hope it reveals.
He lifts us up; there is no coming down.
Heaven now insures a heaven hereafter.
There is hope and glorious prospects in all
which is written in the gospel We should
rejoice in the Lord We have in the gospel
a strong hand. Men will say now, "That is
all very well to preach, but 1 know better
We challenge the man who says that. The
pearl is bound in the shell until it is taken
out, cleansed, and then it will shine every
where it is placed. Like ourselves; we are
bound up like the pearl until we are filled
with the spirit of the Lord and we are bound
to shine. The hope of the world is Jesus
That hope built this church. There is moth
ing greater than this hope. We have to be
true to the gospel and if we are true to the
gospel we are true to the world. Let YOU
life be that eloquent sunbeam of his teach
ings.
Mr. Pattison also occupied the pulpit il
the evening and preached another excellent
sermon.